What People Are Saying:

Jim Kouzes

Co-author of The Leadership Challenge, and the Dean’s Executive Fellow of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University

This is fresh, insightful, and mind-expanding book that is based on sound research, in-depth case studies, and practical experience. It’s a breakthrough work with a unique perspective that will make you think differently about how you think.

Rob Kaiser

President of Kaiser Leadership Solutions and author of The Leadership Versatility Index

Mary Lippitt’s book busts some myths about leadership paradigms. She vividly explains with brilliant examples how mindsets and thought processes add up to much more for decision makers.

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What you will learn from this book?

This book gives you a mindset-based template so you can judge market trends and organizational needs more effectively. In short, by understanding and using six mindsets, you can get better at making brilliant decisions.

New Leadership Mindset: How to expand your leadership mindset in order to make brilliant decisions and avoid blunders.

Practical Tools: How to examine your thinking patterns and leverage an inventory to gauge your current mindset.

Make Wiser Choices: How to balance internal and external issues based on the past, present and future realities.

Examine Thinking Patterns:How to identify which mindset enables you to effectively analyze the context of the business issue.

Boost Team Effectiveness: How to analyze team strengths and avoid potential blind spots.

Techniques to Gain Active Support and Influence Others: How to recognize each mindset in order to improve communication, align efforts and engage others to achieve goals.

Mastering Communication Effectiveness: How to convey your message to your audience or teams.

Based on sixteen years of research with over 6,000 leaders, this leadership paradigm promotes nimbleness, unity and stellar achievement.

Her work on leadership, and execution of change, has been featured in Leader to Leader, Executive Excellence, The Journal of Business Strategy and Industry Week as well as in the popular press.

A hands-on practitioner as well as a researcher, Dr. Lippitt has developed of a number of leadership instruments, including the Leadership Spectrum Profile®, and its accompanying book, The Leadership Spectrum: 6 Business Priorities that Get Results, which won the Bronze award for Best Business Book of 2002. The Leadership Spectrum Profile® won the Human Resource Executive magazines’ Top Training Product Award. Other instruments Dr. Lippitt has developed include Bottom Line Persuasion: Results Focused Influencing™, Execution Priorities Inventory®, and Leadership Power Levers: Targeting Influence and Motivational Practice.™

Get a preview of the Leadership Spectrum Profile® in this FREE book chapter download.